Gaildorf Explained

Type:	Stadt
Image Coa:	Stadtwappen Gaildorf.svg
Coordinates:	49°N 55°W
Image Plan:	Gaildorf in SHA.svg
State:	Baden-Württemberg
Region:	Stuttgart
District:	Schwäbisch Hall
Elevation:	329
Area:	62.56
Postal Code:	74405
Area Code:	07971
Licence:	SHA
Gemeindeschlüssel:	08 1 27 025
Divisions:	10 Stadtteile
Website:	www.gaildorf.de
Mayor:	Frank Zimmermann^[1]
Leader Term:	2022 - 30
Party:	CDU

Gaildorf is a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Kocher, 13 km south of Schwäbisch Hall. Gaildorf is the approximate center of the Limpurger Land district, formerly a county of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the counts Schenk von Limpurg until their extinction in 1713, thereafter inherited by a number of female heirs, and mediatized to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

Notable people

• (1806–1883), member of Landtag
• (1700-1783), organ-maker
• (1807–1857), Württembergian city councilman
• (1817–1907), doctor and poet (son of Justinus Kerner)
• (1824–1895), merchant and member of landtag
• Wilhelm August von Breitling (1835–1914), prime minister of Württemberg
• (1839–1892), Schultheiß and politician
• (1847–1928), pharmacist and fossil-collector in Crailsheim
• (born 1926), agriculturalist
• (1936–2009), writer
• (born 1959), composer
• (born 1969), politician (CDU)
• Hermann Frasch (1851–1914), mining engineer

Buildings and structures

Naturstromspeicher Gaildorf, a combination of wind park and pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant. Three of the wind turbines were from 2017 to 2019 the tallest in the world.

Notes and References

1. https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/wahl/buergermeisterwahl-gaildorf-2022/ Bürgermeisterwahl Gaildorf 2022